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During the pre-independence period the province of Honduras was governed under the 1808 Constitution of Bayonne.. Constitution of 1812 (Constitution of Cádiz), valid from 1812 to 1814 and from 1820 to 1823
Honduran nationality law is regulated by the Constitution, the Migration and Aliens Act (Spanish: Ley de Migración y Extranjería), the 2014 Law on Protection of Honduran Migrants and their Families (Spanish: Ley de Protección de los Hondureños Migrantes y sus Familiares) and relevant treaties to which Honduras is a signatory. [1]
Permission to marry against a civil authority's directive requires the permission of the Ordinary, which, in the case of sensible and equal laws regarding marriageable age, is not usually granted. The permission by the Ordinary is also required in case of a marriage of a minor when their parents are unaware of his marriage or if their parents ...
The Republic of Honduras is organized according to Title I: On the State [1] of the Honduran Constitution of 1982. According to Title V: Branches of the Government, [2] the three administrative branches are the legislative, executive and judicial.
Honduras broke away from the Central American Federation in October 1838 and became an independent sovereign state. However, in the 1840s and 1850s Honduras participated in several conferences Central American Union, which did not work, such as the Confederation of Central America (1842–1845), the covenant of Guatemala (1842), the Diet of Sonsonate (1846) and National Representation in ...
The process of selecting new members of the Supreme Court of Honduras is sui generis, involving the participation of various sectors of civil society.Judges are elected by the National Congress from a list of candidates proposed by a 7-member Nominating Board consisting of: [7] [8] [9]
Municipalities are the only administrative division in Honduras that possess local government. Each municipality has its own elected mayor as opposed to the appointed governors of departments. For statistical purposes, the municipalities are further subdivided into 3731 aldeas , and those into 27969 caserios . [ 1 ]
Same-sex unions are currently not recognized in Honduras.Since 2005, the Constitution of Honduras has explicitly banned same-sex marriage.In January 2022, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to this ban, but a request for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to review whether the ban violates the American Convention on Human Rights is pending.